Guest Scholars

Dr. Rosario Espinal

Temple University

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Dr. Espinal is an influential Dominican sociologist whose specialization is Caribbean Politics, with a special emphasis on processes of democratization.  She presented on September 17th, 2003.

Dr. Herman Bennett

Rutgers University

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Dr. Benett is a historian who works on the role of enslaved Africans in the early Spanish Imperial project. He presented on October 22nd, 2003.

Dr. Ramón Grosfoguel

University of California, Berkeley

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Dr. Grosfoguel is Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of The Modern/Colonial/Capitalist World-System in the Twentieth Century (2002), Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in Changing New York (2001), and Puerto Rican Jam: Rethinking Colonialism and Nationalism (1997). He is a research associate of the Maison des Science de l'Homme in Paris and the Fernand Braudel Center in New York.  Dr. Grosfoguel presented on October 29th, 2003.

Dr. Sheila Walker

Spelman College

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Dr. Walker, a well-known Anthropologist, recently named Cosby Chair for the Humanities at Spelman College, is the author of numerous publications on the role of Africans and African cultures in the new world. Her recent book is entitled African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas, and is accompanied by a video entitled "Scattered Africa: The African Diaspora in the Americas".  She will presented on February 25th, 2004